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Role
Adjunct Professor
Program
Bachelor Degree in International Relations and Global Politics
Education
PhD in Theology at King’s College, London
Post-doctoral diploma in Bioethics at the University of Padova
Degree in history at the University of Bologna

Biography

Affiliations

  • Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione, Padova (I) 
  • Union School of Theology, Bridgend (UK)

Selected publications

  • A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Papacy. Its origin and role in the 21st century (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2015); Italian edition: Il papato. Una guida evangelica (Firenze: BE Edizioni, 2015); Spanish edition: Hablemos de el Papado. Su origen y papel en el siglo XXI, (Ciudad Real: Editorial Peregrino, 2017); Slovak edition: Pápežstvo. Jeho Pôvod a úloha v 21 Storočí (Kežmarok: Vivit, 2021); Portuguese edition: Papado. Sua origem e seu papel no século 21 (SãoPaulo: Pilgrim, 2022); Swedish edition: Lilla guiden om Påvedömet (Töreboda: Timoteus Förlag, 2022); Czech edition: Papežství (Praha: Didasko, 2023). 
     
  • A Christian Pocket Guide to Mary. Mother of God? (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2017); Italian edition: Maria. Una guida evangelica (Caltanissetta: Alfa & Omega, 2017); Spanish edition: Hablemos de María ¿Madre de Dios? (Ciudad Real: Editorial Peregrino, 2019); Portuguese edition: Maria. Honra ou idolatria? (São Paulo: Pilgrim, 2022); Czech edition: Marie, matka Boží? (Praha: Didasko, 2023). 
     
  • “Not By Faith Alone? An Analysis of the Roman Catholic Doctrine of Justification from Trent to the Joint Declaration” in M. Barrett (ed.), The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands or Falls (Wheaton: Crossway, 2019) pp. 739-767. 
     
  • “Robert Bellarmine and His Controversies with the Reformers. A Window on Post-Tridentine Roman Catholic Apologetics”, European Journal of Theology 31.1 (2022) pp. 21-42. 
     
  • “To Be Or Not To Be: Exercising Theological Stewardship Of The Name Christian”, Foundations No. 82 Spring 2022, pp. 8-22. 
     
  • “The Clay of Paganism with the Iron of Christianity: Cornelius van Til’s Critique of Roman Catholicism” in J. Eglinton – G. Harinck (edd.),Neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism (Leiden: Brill, 2023) pp. 249-261. 
     
  • Thomas Aquinas: An Evangelical Engagement (London: IVP, 2024) 
     
  • Fully Roman Catholic. Pope Francis in Protestant Perspective, edd. Skyler Hamilton & Casey Cheney (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2025) 
     
  • Ancient Landmarks. An Evangelical Guide to Patristic and Medieval Thought (London: IVP, 2026)